The real Glaswegian working class voice in the independence debate read by thousands, the BBC and other related media, secured the first criminal conviction against one of the seven top cybernats outed by the Daily Mail

Actor Ray Winstone has hosted the hit BBC
programme Have I got News For You.

The programme takes pot shots at the
establishment and society, its tongue in cheek stuff which can be very cutting.

It’s entertainment and as such should be
viewed as such.

However Ray Winstone has upset some people
by drawn around 100 complaints after calling Scots “tramps”!

In London, there are a lot of homeless
Scots who came to the big city and found the streets weren’t paved with gold,
these people ended up sleeping rough, on the internet you can see examples of
people in this desperate situation from all backgrounds.

Ray Winstone has had 100 complaints filed
against him after what is described as ‘anti-Scottish’ jibes.

And of course, the complainers have played
the ‘race card’.

Tag someone with a label and then take the
moral high ground.

With independence collapsing round the ears
of the SNP, their supporters and ilk have gotten into complaining mode.

Viewers became upset about a section of the
show addressing Scottish independence.

Ian Hislop joked that the Scottish
Government would make Mars bars the nation’s new currency.

Light hearted stuff.

Guest host Winstone said:

“To be fair the Scottish economy has its
strengths - its chief exports being oil, whisky, tartan and tramps.”

He then asked the audience if “we should
just tell the Scots to bugger off.”

Awhile ago, someone in the independence camp
called me a tramp when I appeared in the BBC Big Debate audience, that night
everything I was wearing was brand new.

Although Ray Winstone said his stuff in
jest, the character that attacked me was full of hate and bile.

In comedy, some people will always be
offended, but the right to say it goes under free speech.

Independence brings out the worst in some ‘nationalists’,
and as the collapse continues of support these people will be more offended and
more outraged.

Ray Winstone can say what he likes; I am
not offended because I can recognise that Have I Got News for You is just a
light hearted entertainment show.

Winstone isn’t a racist.

Another own goal for the independence camp
and their supporter crying ‘wolf’!

If enough people tell you that you are
drunk, it is best to sit your arse down!

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon have run
the independence campaign so far as a complete shambles.

One can only come to the conclusion that
these two buffoons thought that a virtual internet campaign, spin, hype, smoke
and mirrors and no substance would win the day.

Oh let’s mention a few street stalls as
well.

That is the sum and substance of why things
are so bad, these people don’t know what they are doing.

The currency problem is self created,
rather than having a range of options, the SNP decided to do no work, that’s no
work over 80 years.

What currency Scotland uses is important, I
have blogged that there has to be planning for a Scottish pound.

Expect no help from Westminster and you
will not be disappointed and plan accordingly.

Salmond and Sturgeon couldn’t grasp that
concept.

Now, two leading independence campaigners
have spoken out against Alex Salmond's plan for a currency union with the UK.

Jim Fairlie, a former deputy leader of the
SNP, said the most sensible option for an independent Scotland would be to
establish a new currency.

10 points to that man!

Colin Fox, the leader of the SSP and a Yes
Scotland campaign board member, also backed a new currency, arguing the
proposed currency zone would hand power and control to the Bank of England.

Although not the smartest tack in the box,
Fox can see what Salmond and Sturgeon patently cannot, a new country must have
a new currency.

The pair is speaking out a week after
Chancellor George Osborne warned the UK was unlikely to agree to a currency
union with a newly independent Scotland in the future.

England isn’t going to take the risks of a
race to the bottom.

On the off chance the UK did agree, Osborne
concluded that, it would place considerable constraints on Scotland's economic
policies.

That means they set interest rates and
approve the Scottish budget and spending plans.

Hardly independence!

Fairlie dismissed the plan in an article
for Options for Scotland, an online forum set up by former party leader Gordon
Wilson.

As well as Fairlie, former party leader
Gordon Wilson is also onboard in the need for a new currency as well.

Fairlie said:

“If sovereignty means anything at all to
the Scottish people, control of their own currency is a prerequisite."

Colin Fox wrote in his blog:

"It goes without saying that keeping
the pound or establishing a sterling zone means handing over a considerable
amount of power and control over Scotland's economy and spending options to the
Bank of England and the City of London. And many will in-evitably ask what then
is the point of Independence?"

So, the non backing of the Alex Salmond and
Nicola Sturgeon ‘vision’ continues to grow even among those involved in the
independence campaign.

Such dissent shows that the Scottish
National Party is incapable of leading Scotland to independence under the
failing leadership of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.

The comments of Fairlie and Wilson echo
views voiced by Jim Cuthbert, an economist frequently cited by the SNP, and
John Kay, a former economic adviser to the First Minister.

So, when is the U turn coming from the ‘jolly
fat man’ and ‘concerned citizen’?

Even the pro-independence Scottish Greens
have also urged the SNP to keep the option of a new currency open.

The crash is coming, Yes Scotland the SNP
front has run out of ideas, the SNP has no vision, Salmond’s ‘jolly fat man’
routine has failed to win support, polls keep showing decline, and Sturgeon
still fails to realise that she can’t turn round the situation.

More pudding Alex?

Today is 505 days to the political death of
Alex Salmond, no one is backing him!

In 2012, Team Sturgeon was ‘politically ass
raped’ by Glasgow Labour Leader Gordon Matheson at the ballot box.

Both cheeks!

Despite entering the race in what must have
been the worst possible position that the Labour Party ever experienced, Matheson
pulled off a historic win.

In the battle to win Glasgow, Gordon ‘free
dinners’ Matheson faced off against the SNP’s Allison Hunter, a Sturgeon crony
of unremarkable talent.

At the Sunny Govan Radio hustings and
elsewhere, Hunter proved she wasn’t capable of winning the City of Glasgow.

She was and remains a dud!

Someone get that woman a blanket and some hot soup.

Since then, Team Sturgeon has been keen to
take out Gordon Matheson for humiliating Nicola Sturgeon.

Dreams of building a Sturgeon power base
vanished.

Nicola Sturgeon came to the SECC to hear
the result, hoping her cronies would swept to power, the look on her face
was different than 12 months previously, she walked in big smiles, she left
looking like the angry wee Nat she is.

Revenge!

The George Square redesign was a contest
which people could submit their vision for a revamp, the Commonwealth Games are
coming up and the Square was looking less than impressive.

Unfortunately, the winning design voted for
wasn’t enacted.

Apparently Gordon Matheson 'took the huff' because the one he wanted wasn’t picked; Matheson needs to learn the principle
of one man one vote it seems.

Now; allegations of how the contest was run
has plagued the leader of Glasgow City Council with Team Sturgeon jumping on
the bandwagon calling for Matheson to resign over the fiasco.

Apparently Team Sturgeon getting shagged up
the political arse has had such an effective on their fragile minds that they want to
fuck Matheson up the political arse albeit delayed.

Nicola Sturgeon lost the battle of Glasgow
in a fair fight, get over it, Labour played a superior hand; strictly speaking
they could have played a weak hand and still beaten Sturgeon’s proxy Allison
Hunter.

Things have gotten so bad that Matheson is
being investigated by police over alleged misconduct during the £100,000
contest to redesign George Square.

The Major Crimes and Public Protection unit
is on the job, over claims he interfered with the procurement process for the
project.

Gordon ‘free dinners’ Matheson has said he
is confident of being cleared of any wrongdoing.

The current proxy for Nicola Sturgeon is Graeme
Hendry, the part time leader of the SNP Cllr group; he says Mr Matheson had caused
“great embarrassment” to the city.

Presumably he hasn’t watched himself on TV!

Mr Hendry said:

“Councillor Matheson has been accused of
some very seriousoffences and it is
only right and proper they are investigated by all the appropriate
organisations, including the police. It would be appropriate for Matheson to
consider his position in the council, due to the great embarrassment he has
caused the city and the damage he has done to the council’s relationship with
the business community.”

This is from a man who said that he would
hold Glasgow City Council to account than less than a couple of weeks later, reneged on that promise.

Hendry added:

“Councillor Matheson’s behaviour during the
judging process seems to have been highly inappropriate, and the council need
to ensure procedures are in place to prevent this happening in the future,
whilst also asking Audit Scotland to fully review theresources wasted.”

Given nothing has been proven, you would
think that Hendry would wait until facts are established.

In an act of pure spite, the SNP group has
submitted a motion to the next monthly full council in May proposing that Audit
Scotland investigate whether any councillors unduly influenced the procurement
process.

That motion has no chance of success, it is
gesture politics for Nicola Sturgeon, and can a “gesture” really make up for
Gordon Matheson doing the entire SNP Team Sturgeon campaign up the political
arse?

The SNP motion states that “the debacle has
damaged the reputation of this council amongst the architectural community and in
wider public perception”.

Cock!

One thing for certain is the people of
Glasgow aren’t hanging on anything that SNP Sturgeon proxy Graeme Hendry says
on anything.

In a statement issued by the council on his
behalf, Mr Matheson said:

“I’m happy for this to be fully
investigated. I will give whatever help the police ask me to and am confident
there will ultimately be a finding in my favour.”

In other words, it seems that there is no
paper trail of wrongdoing.

Gordon Matheson needs his rest, in 2017, he
and the Labour Party will politically ass rape Team Sturgeon again, last time,
he ‘took them in the rear’, this time, he might also ‘reach around and take
them from the front’.

Team Sturgeon need to start grabbing hold
of their political ankles now, clearly Glasgow Labour have defined who and who
is not a political bitch in this city!

Attacking the gay guy, doesn’t still well
with Glaswegians, Nicola Sturgeon should think on that next time she lets her
attack dogs off the leash.

And we all see through the 'standing up for Glasgow' lie that she and Team Sturgeon promotes, they don't and the public know it now.

The SNP Westminster leader, Englishman
Angus Robertson has claimed the “No” campaign is based on the idea that Scots
are “uniquely poor”, “stupid” and “incapable” of self-government.

Race politics!

Race politics is scrapping the bottom of
the political barrel.

Did Mr. Roberson think that playing the
‘race card’, people sitting eating their ‘din dins’ would suddenly drop
everything and run to the barricades to support him, Alex Salmond and Nicola
Sturgeon?

All he did was look stupid and he achieved
this with no help from the Unionists.

He also rather clumsily appears to be
trying to link ‘Scots’ to the SNP.

A rather poor attempt at spinning much like
a 16 year old male tugging at his first set of female panties!

Fumble, fumble, fumble!

Scottish independence support has
completely collapsed, the latest poll at the weekend is more bad news for the
Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon; it is a rock solid 60% in favour of remaining
part of the UK.

Well done Nicola, another week of complete
and abject failure.

The positive campaign much heralded by the
SNP is nothing of the sort, Robertson yet again proves that.

He said in an interview:

“They are running around trying to scare
people into voting No. I think it says something about the paucity of the
argument in favour of the Union that the only case they seem to be making is
that people in Scotland are uniquely poor, stupid and incapable of governing
themselves.”

Mr Robertson has been in politics a long
time but unfortunately he can’t sell his product because he doesn’t understand
what his product is, which puts him in the same boat as much of the rest of the
SNP.

Simple people who think they are strategic
political masterminds, failing to understand that they are in fact never minds!

Personally I object to some dumb bastard
putting forward I am unable to think for myself and reason matters out.

Anyway, Robertson continues:

“I think it reflects more on themselves and
their lack of ideas – rather than the case we are making, which is based on
hope and progress.”

What a load of shite!

Making a case?

What case, a case based on spin, hype, wee
flags, balloons and few street stalls, turning up at other people’s demos and
latching onto them!

Alex Salmond is running around playing the
role of a ‘jolly fat man’, alongside Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon who has tried to craft a role as a ‘concerned citizen’!

Two buffoons!

Better Together responded by rejecting
Robertson’s claim.

A spokesman said:

“The only people who peddle this line are
the Nationalists. No-one from Better Together thinks that Scotland couldn’t go
it alone – we think that it is better for our economy, our jobs and our future
if we stay together with the rest of the UK. The Nationalists are only
interested in dividing people. We think that we are stronger when we work
together.”

Robertson added:

“We live in an interdependent world in the
21st century and the independence that we seek is that of the 21st century and
not the 19th century. In many respects, we look forward to working with a
degree of continuity – not least and most importantly – the social union. That
means that none of us are foreigners. We are good friends and rivals.”

You may remember David Cameron appeared to
respond to Angus Robertson in the House of Commons mouthing silently:

“will you fuck off”!

In pure SNP grudge, grievance and
malcontent fostered over 30 years, the Moray MP says that an independent
Scotland would “enhance” the Commonwealth, which was “taken for granted” by the
UK.

How?

Made a statement; but where is the
evidence!

It is an assumption and as we all know
assumption is the mother of all fuck alls.

Holding Angus Robertson in the interview
was his colleague Angus MacNeil, the MP for the Western Isles.

I remember Mr. MacNeil, at a by-election he
declared that he was ‘in charge’ of the sign in sheets, which presumably meant
that the lazy bastard wasn’t going to do any work, such a talent.

So, last week was a disaster for the SNP,
George Osborne effectively killed off currency union, Yes Scotland was exposed
as an SNP front, Blair Jenkins continues in his post which is rather
unfortunate if you are serious about winning independence and the latest poll
shows no one is interested in Salmond’s vision.

To sink as low as to using race politics is
a new low, and a measure of how desperate the nationalist camp has become of
late.

No George Laird radical thinking!

I think that in future Englishman Angus
Robertson should keep quiet, and certainly stop trying to pass himself off as
Scottish.

Race politics, what a dick!

When David Cameron silently mouthed to
Robertson, ‘will you fuck off’, looks like he got the measure of the man.

There I was pottering about and then I came
across an article By Euan McColm.

It raises the issue that anyone knows in
the SNP and beyond, Yes Scotland is an SNP front.

In Glasgow, you can’t have failed to
noticed that the number of “Yes branches” match the same number of SNP
branches, and that “Yes whoever” within the City is run by SNP members.

They take off their SNP hat and don their
Yes Scotland hat.

It is complete bullshit.

Yes Scotland campaign makes great play of
the diversity of its membership and support.

It’s a coalition of the damned, handicapped
by a complete lack of original thought.

On twitter, I asked Patrick Harvie of the
Greens a question awhile ago, do the Greens campaign at Yes Scotland/ SNP
events?

No reply; fairly straightforward question,
no reason not to answer it, but curiously Patrick didn’t.

Yes Scotland’s front man is chief executive
Blair Jenkins OBE, what does he know about political campaigning?

I would say nil, however he probably has
seen it on TV!

And as we are all aware, those of us who
are awake; the SNP has their “key staff” in paid positions and of course on the
board.

So, at every level the SNP is there, and
despite this Mr. Jenkins insists this isn’t an SNP front and to say so is a
smear.

Apparently, it’s a grassroots organisation
as Euan says “overgrowing with compassionate, and almost exclusively ordinary
and local, Scots”.

That is such cock!

The only ordinary Scots would be the mugs who
they get to deliver leaflets.

A couple of weeks ago, Jenkins gave a
speech, the speech was a business dinner organised by Yes West Lothian.

So what are the odds that Yes West Lothian
is run by SNP members?

I would say without a doubt pretty high.

Jenkins explained:

“Yes has been much more visible and audible
throughout Scotland, a genuine grassroots movement with more than 150 local
groups now up and running and new ones emerging every month.”

And the percentage of these groups will
probably be SNP branches just like the Glasgow set up.

But we shouldn’t forget other little
organizations which have suddenly sprung up, these groups also have SNP members
helping running them such as ‘Women for Independence’ and ‘Out for Independence’.

So, let us not kid ourselves that there is
broad base support or even independent voices speaking out for independence.

It is just the same people popping up in
different guises.

Presumably we are all supposed to be too
dumb to notice, even on Twitter, we see the ‘I’m not in the SNP but I am voting
indy’, then you scroll down their followers and see who they are connect to ….,SNP
members.

Jenkins added:

“Yes Scotland has support from people of
all parties and – like myself – none. On our board are Patrick Harvie of the
Scottish Greens and Colin Fox of the Scottish Socialist Party; we also have
distinctive non-party voices like Pat Kane and Elaine C Smith; and of course,
the formerly Labour but now formidably independent Dennis Canavan is our Chair.
Yet Better Together asserts in the face of this evidence that "Yes
Scotland is simply an SNP front". The smears start here.”

“distinctive non-party voices like Pat Kane
and Elaine C Smith”.

Both of these people are attached to the
SNP, Kane is connected to Joan McAlpine MSP and Elaine C Smith I have met at an
SNP event, specifically ‘Ask Alex’.

Harvie is probably in it because it helps
his Green cause, and as to Colin Fox, it is to try and rebuild his SSP Party
which was wiped out in 2007.

Jenkins continued:

“Yes Scotland runs a positive campaign and
we never indulge in personal or sweeping attacks. Better Together says falsely
and again without producing any evidence that we are part of a
"co-ordinated dirty-tricks campaign". The smears go on.”

As Euan articulates Jenkins’ claims are clearly
bogus.

Or it could be that Jenkins is such a shit
Chief Executive he doesn’t know what is going on around him?

And he missed the little Yes Scotland
campaign of a wince-inducing open letter to George Osborne with the pay-off
that the only thing an independent Scotland would “lose” for sure would be him?

Osborne wouldn’t be missed, but then
neither will Alex Salmond when he goes, and as we are seeing Salmond is looking
increasingly like exiting stage left before George Osborne.

I see Jenkins as a patsy; he is the front
man much like Dennis Canavan, to portray it’s a big happy family of "ordinary
people" coming together.

The reality is that Yes Scotland is in the main the
coming together of the non elected SNP clique picking up ‘an earner’, it’s just
such bullshit.

But despite all this we have Jenkins’s
angry insistence that Yes Scotland is not an SNP-front (a claim made despite
the fact that the bulk of its financial support comes from either the party or
its donors).

There is no independent thought there, and
Euan is saying what I have said, however, I am more robust, I call Yes Scotland
a SNP crony ridden pit.

And the evidence keeps on mounting, the
narrative of the SNP appears as the narrative of Yes Scotland, it’s the same
people who are attached to Salmond and Sturgeon in the party.

And it uses identical lines to the Scottish
Government.

When Sturgeon used the “scaremongering”
line, it was automatically picked up and used in a Yes Scotland statement.

Great minds thinking alike!

No.

Interestingly Euan highlights the Sterling
zone issue which I have blogged on, Yes Scotland’s position is exactly the same
as the Scottish Government, and that is also the SNP position.

But as Blair Jenkins says, and also rejects
Yes Scotland isn’t an SNP front.

On the day the date for indy was announced,
Yes Scotland within minutes of Alex Salmond giving the day to Parliament,
posted a picture of the date stage managed in a Glasgow Street.

Jenkins said he didn’t know in advance but
apparently several of his staff seemed to have, and they all left the Yes
Scotland Office to do the photo session, and he also apparently didn’t notice
that his staff had walked out circa 2 pm.

Euan asks an interesting question:

“So if Yes Scotland isn’t a SNP front, what
is it? A Government department, maybe?”

The question is easy, Yes Scotland is an
SNP front which has hangers on which make up the ‘coalition of the damned’,
there is no original thought, it is running a virtual campaign with SNP
branches effectively trying to pass themselves off as Yes whoever.

Yes Scotland is like Pravda, the newspaper
of the Communist Party in old mother Russia, and the longer the campaign goes
on the more desperate they will become, already they have failed to generate
support or a narrative which people are buying into.

All their work so far has been a complete
waste of time, recently they staged an attempt to win the mock referendum at
Glasgow University, full time Yes Scotland staff, SNP Cabinet Ministers, SNP
members and Patrick Harvie (looking rather lost), and pushing herself forward
to lead it was Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Complete utter failure, apparently Ms.
Sturgeon must have thought her popularity would win the day.

Disaster, a mistake to personally campaign
on the campus streets which I said was wrong.

George Laird right again, when you spend 20
years at Glasgow University, you understand the mentality of the student body.

To return to Mr. Jenkins of Yes Salmond,
his leadership is poor, he needs an assistant who thinks politically and
independently of the SNP, independence had to be run by the SNP as a special,
they treated it like an another election.

They set up a phoney organisation filled
with their cronies who couldn’t organise ‘getting their hole in a barrel of
fannies; and from the get go, it was always going to fail.

This is supposed to be a community based movement,
and the community isn’t turning up.

Blair Jenkins has got to go or have the
guts to kick the Team Sturgeon cronies out the door, Somerville, Lythgoe, Kane,
Noon and Mackie and any other Sturgeon crony that has took up residence……. ‘get
the fuck out’!

Name the movie that line came from!

The tag that Yes Scotland is an SNP front
will remain, 509 days left to the political death of Alex Salmond at the ballot
box.

If Alex Salmond can’t get a Sterling Zone
deal that means Scotland has no central bank, bottom line, I would suggest that
Salmond and Sturgeon would then take Scotland into the Euro.

Alternatively, they would have to go for
what is the real option, set up a separate Scottish currency.

That isn’t problem free.

Nigel Farage’s star is on the rise, his
UKIP Party has capitalised on the failure of the big three UK parties to
address voters concerns.

In the Eastleigh by-election, the party’s
candidate saw a 24 point swing in her direction, although she didn’t win, she
was by miles a much better candidate than the eventual winner from the Lib
Dems.

Can UKIP keep the momentum going?

Well, things aren’t getting better and the
public want change.

Austerity is crippling the UK economy.

Anyway, although UKIP has made a real
breakthrough in Scotland, Nigel Farage has entered the Scottish indy debate.

He has dismissed out of hand the SNP's
desire for a currency union, saying it was difficult to see how Scotland would
be truly independent if a foreign country controlled its interest rates.

And he is absolutely right; we have seen
the failed Euro model literally tear apart weaker countries such as Greece.

When it comes to money, there is no ‘partnership
of equals’, in theory, Sterling currency union can’t work for Alex Salmond and
Nicola Sturgeon.

The rest of the UK will put their
priorities ahead of Scotland.

Things would get worse in Scotland and that
would lead to a move by the SNP towards the Euro and access to the European
Central Bank to recapitalise Scotland.

Then, we would have all our assets sold off
to pay for it, unbelievable austerity and massive cuts to the public services.

And all because Alex Salmond couldn’t be
bothered to do the work for independence!

But, we should remember, the Scottish
National Party is a one man band, that is why in key areas there is no detail,
and what detail is forthcoming is of such poor quality.

There really is a genuine lack of talent in
the Scottish National Party, the party is run as a clique, a not very
intelligent clique.

Speaking to Westminster journalists, Farage
denied he was England's version of Alex Salmond, saying the First Minister
lived in "dreamland."

On all the major issues, NATO, EU, defence,
currency, health, education and law, it’s all blowing back now.

Farage is right when he says Scotland couldn’t
achieve independence while being a member of the European Union.

Down the line, we would be forced to join
the Euro.

It is so obvious the road that Alex Salmond
and Nicola Sturgeon are headed, they once on the slippery slope can’t go back.

It’s why we need a separate Scottish currency.

On the issue of an independent Scotland
joining the UK in a sterling zone, he said:

"Of course, Scotland can if it wishes
use sterling as a means of exchange – Panama uses the US dollar – but it is
difficult to see how independent a country can be if it doesn't actually
control its own currency and the interest rates that effect that
currency."

Mr Farage said it was a "delicious
irony" that what had "sunk" the independence campaign was the
assertion by Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, that an
independent Scotland seeking EU membership would have to join the euro.

He added:

"The Scottish people looked at that
and said no."

He went on: "You can't have it both
ways... Either you are independent or you're not."

And that really sums up the current state
of affairs, the ‘plans’ aren’t in place, there is no alternatives and the SNP
keep making assumptions on what they think others will do, on the basis that
they say so!

And that isn’t happening as George Osborne
outlined, Sterling Zone isn’t on the table.

From ‘dreamland to Skintland’, the Alex
Salmond journey continues, stopping off to refuel on curries.

Imagine all the independence activists who
are waking up to discovered that they really have been played for mugs by
Salmond!

John Swinney got an easy ride last night by
Gordon Brewer, but the closer the day of Alex Salmond’s political death at the ballot box draws
near, the greater the heat will be turned up.

It’s an issue of trust and as we are
continually seeing, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon can’t be trusted on
anything.

That’s a problem!

It’s a separate Scottish currency and always
was a separate Scottish currency for independence!

If you do, then you are in for a treat, the
chickens have come to roost for Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular Deputy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

A new Treasury report has effectively sunk
their idea of a ‘partnership of equals’ on currency.

The conclusions in the report shows yet
again, that Scotland needs its own currency if it is to be independent.

The lack of genuine talent in the Scottish
National Party has produced no viable solution to the currency problem.

This means that ann independent Scotland
would have to give up control over key elements of its economy if it wants to
keep on using the pound.

Chancellor George Osborne fired the official
broadside today.

Under Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon’s
incompetence, an iIndependent Scotland would have no control over
“macroeconomic framework”.

Independence supporters must be waking up
this morning and wondering, exactly what have Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon
actually done to prepare Scotland for its independence bid?

Precious little!

Osborne chose Glasgow, the heart of the
Labour Empire to launch a Treasury analysis of the implications of a Scottish
vote for independence in next year’s referendum.

And then he dropped the Bomb, the UK is
unlikely to agree to a new sterling zone between the two countries.

What about Alex Salmond’s ‘jolly fat man’
routine?

Everything is nirvana and everyone will get
two acres and a mule strategy appears to be unraveling day by day.

Osborne chipped in by saying:

“I think it is unlikely that the rest of
the United Kingdom would agree to or we could make work a euro-style currency
zone with Scotland.”

Regular readers possible may remember I
said that the UK would adopt a quite simple straightforward position.

You’re getting fuck all!

Plan McB by Salmond and Sturgeon?

Please; there wasn’t even a credible plan A.

Time for a quote by Alex Salmond:

“My problem is that I have too many
talented people and not enough Cabinet positions.”

A whole Cabinet and they can't even draw up a
viabale currency plan.

Osborne then decided to take a dig at SNP
Fantasy politics:

“It is all very well for the SNP to assert
that’s what they would like. I think it is unlikely that it could be made to
work and therefore if Scotland wants to keep the pound the best way to do that
is to stay in the United Kingdom. Scotland could go on using the pound, rather
like Panama uses the American dollar, but it would have absolutely no control
at all over

its currency or its macroeconomic framework.
There are some countries in the world that use other countries’ currencies
without their consent if you like, but it’s a very, very difficult option for a
country to undertake.”

Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney said
Scotland could walk away from its share of the UK’s debts if the Westminster
government refuses to come to “a rational and considered agreement”.

That isn’t even a credible threat.

To offset the bad news, later today, the
Scottish Government will publish the findings of its Fiscal Commission Working
Group.

And it is more bad news in a lesser way for Salmond and
Sturgeon; their Working Group backs the idea of a sterling currency zone, along
similar lines to the eurozone.

Trouble is rather than solving the problem properly,
it is a halfway house.

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon propose
that a foreign country sets our interest rates, economic and fiscal policies,
which can mean we have less say than we do at present, all of the problems and
none of the benefits.

And we aren’t even anywhere near the
European Union debacle yet which the SNP made spurious claims only to be shown up
as liars!

Another day and more comes out regarding
the lack of competence of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon!

Maybe someone should get them 'paper cups' so
they can go begging in the streets, start small in the world of finance and
then work their way up.

Patently Salmond can’t be trusted on
currency, he is gambling with people’s lives, their assets, savings and mortgages!

Hardly a man for all seasons, more like a man for all curries, currency is proving too hot for him to stomach tho.

Glasgow City Council had a contest to
redesign George Square; this attracted a number of entries.

One thing you would expect that the contest
would be fair, open and honest.

Everyone entered in good faith and it isn’t
unreasonable to expect the competition to be run in that manner.

However, it appears questions have been
asked about the running of this contest which has ended up with Glasgow Council
Leader; ­Gordon Matheson taking the huff that his preferred design wasn't being
chosen.

Now, Gordon ‘free dinners’ Matheson has been
reported to ethics watchdog with allegations that he breached of the code of conduct
as a councilor.

The SNP is calling for his resignation and
asked that Matheson to “do the honourable thing” by considering his position,
and accused him of “damaging” the city’s reputation.

Maybe the SNP should put its own house in
order before trying to tackle the problem of George Square.

So, what is Matheson facing?

Well, the claims are attempting to coerce
staff, improper bias, interfering in a legally defined procurement process, and
trying to be “directly involved” in the local council’s operational management.

The competition collapsed in January, when
the judging panel selected a blueprint from John McAslan & Partners from
six shortlisted entries, only for Mr Matheson to announce the council had
scrapped the initiative.

In layman’s terms that is called a ‘bad
loser’.

The complaint sent to the Public Standards
Commissioner includes a statement from Kerr Robertson, until recently the
council’s lead architect and projects ­director.

He alleges, he was told six weeks before
the final judging process began that “Gordon Matheson [would] be allowed to
choose the winning design”, and that he was asked to ensure “other jury members
would fall in line with this”.

Straightaway, we have council sources
suggesting Mr Robertson may have had a grudge against Mr Matheson.

This is pretty standard stuff, someone
makes a comment or complaint and then they get attacked, it is a tactic well
known in the Scottish National Party.

This attack was countered by someone close
to the project who said:

“The suggestion he might have a grudge
against Cllr Matheson is absolutely ­absurd. He had always been the most
supportive, diligent, and hugely professional employee of Glasgow City
Council.”

A spokesman for Mr Matheson said:

“Even the RIAS make it clear in the
complaint that they can’t find a rule they think has been broken and they
acknowledge that the competition was well run. They are also clear that they
have no evidence of ­anyone attempting to improperly ­influence the jury.”

So, it seems that Gordon ‘free dinners’
Matheson according to reports has nothing to fear, as much as the SNP try to
take Matheson out, he keeps slipping the jab, bobbing and weaving.

Or did you decide to take my word on what I
wrote regarding who is actually a traitor?

“it is true that you did not directly state
that Tommy Sheridan was a rich Tory, but you are missing an obvious logical
conclusion here. If he is living in a house that only a rich Tory could afford,
then the householder is a rich Tory”.

I was trying to highlight that although
Tommy Sheridan, ‘brother’ ‘comrade’ cloth cap, donkey jacket and ‘hero of the
working class’ spouts on about the poor, his lifestyle certainly isn’t.

“Either the householder is Tommy Sheridan
or someone else is putting him up there”.

I think we can be fairly certain; Tommy’s
home is his castle.

“It is not actually an insult to point out
that someone is middle-class”.

No, but in this case regarding me, you are
wrong, I am working class, true I have been to uni, taught in the place but also
I was doing the shit jobs as well.

At uni my first job was as a ‘womble’.

“Scots generally are less concerned about
class than the English. My father's father was a plumber, my mother's father
was a crofter. They were both teachers. I spent my career programming computers
and designing computer systems. I guess that makes me second-generation
middle-class”.

Whatever tag you wish to use for yourself
is fine by me.

“Get over the fact that you are manifestly
middle-class, unless you are actually upper-class and depend on a private
income to fund your blogging”.

I blog that doesn’t make me middle class,
and as to the blog itself, it doesn’t get funded by anyone not even this stuff.

“May I add that I deplore the abusive
language which you quote has been directed at you by others. Never by me, as I
trust you on”.

Hamish, there are some terribly unhappy
Nationalists out there, including the ones that smeared me out of pure spite.

And if you stick around for the finish, you
will see more unhappiness of epic proportions.

At Edinburgh Napier University 70.5 % voted
against Scottish independence, another epic failure.

Add to it ever poll has indy crashing
through the floor, this is all in the public domain, do you remember Salmond
going on about the ‘Celtic block’ of 20 MPs in 2010?

How many did he get?

6!

The same 6 as he had in previously, and
that is because the SNP isn’t seen as credible at Westminster, just like the
NATO debacle, people have been allowed to fester alongside bankrupt policies
and the public do notice.

Alex Salmond knows the game is up, of course,
I don’t expect you to notice the same things I do, or how they all add up.

Regardless of all that, I have a track
record of calling it right, which is pretty good, and I am telling you,
Scottish independence support has completely collapsed and Alex Salmond, Nicola
Sturgeon and Peter Murrell can’t fix it.

So, are you out fighting the ‘good fight’
doing Yes Scotland events?

If you are, you will notice the lack of personnel
as just a handful of people turn up; this is because the majority of SNP
members wouldn’t turn out for Salmond and Sturgeon.

Why should they when they read how badly others
get treated.

Last SNP Conference was a major flop, the
big ‘we are on our way’ never even got out of the car park.